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- Nov 15, 2021
I think what killed 4chan libertarianism was a combination of the 2016 political messes & elections, the subsequent start of the censorship engine post 2016 by FAGMAN and friends where the corporations they imagined would be neutral became hostile. The ron paul ideals died around that time too, take a look at stefan molyneux who was once a huge name in rightwingland and now is utterly obscure and irrelevant. Hell nowadays the existence and actions of larry fink & blackrock is enough to stomp any argument for economic libertarianism into the ground. Libertarianism didnt have the answers to the problems that were becoming relevant and found its own ideals twisted against itself, atleast for right wing libertarianism. Anarchism and such were always nightmarishly retarded
Another thing that killed libertarianism is the observation that when you remove legal sanctions on harmful behavior, a political consensus rapidly grows for public support of the behavior. If we had a red-in-tooth-and-claw libertarian world, where no government rides to your rescue when you fuck up your life beyond the point when anyone will voluntarily help you, fags would die of AIDS, and women would depend on their husbands for material support. But the equality language that led to the creation of gay rights and women's rights also led to a moral and political consensus that the government should intervene to create equality should nature fail to deliver.
This is why I went from pro-legalization to anti-legalization on drugs. I don't want the state to nurse degenerate addicts and cradle them in public housing. I want addicts to die in the street during cold winters and to perish from filthy diseases the rest of the year. The only way to not be saddled with the cost of feeding, clothing, and housing addicts is to ensure that drug use never gets normalized, and the easiest way to do that is to keep it criminal.